Oscar Edmondson

Head of Podcasts @Spectator | [email protected]

[Oscar Edmondson @oscaredmondson_]

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[iNHouse @iNHouseComms]

Rising Star

David Reilly – People and Politics (Dee Reilly Media)
Laura Beveridge – The PoliticsJOE Podcast (PoliticsJOE)
Oscar Edmondson – Coffee House Shots (The Spectator)
Patrick Baker – Westminster Insider (Politico)

[The Spectator @spectator]

On today's Coffee House Shots podcast: In a busy week for British politics, LBC's Iain Dale joins Tim Shipman and James Heale to discuss his new book, Have I Said Too Much?

Iain speaks frankly about standing as a Conservative candidate at two general elections – and his fateful attempt to fight a third.

Listen | https://t.co/bIpYcibHxL

[The Spectator @spectator]

On this week's Quite Right podcast: Andy Burnham has begun his premiership with a sweeping reshuffle, purging many of Keir Starmer's closest allies and installing a cabinet in his own image. Has he ended Labour factionalism – or simply created a new faction of enemies?

And does the appointment of John Healey as Chancellor suggest that Burnham wants a safe pair of hands rather than a rival power base?

Listen | https://t.co/vONIgKNJaW

[Tim Shipman @ShippersUnbound]

GOING LIVE shortly on the Spectator YouTube channel. Coffee House with the great @JAHeale

[Tali Fraser @TaliFraser]

Spoke about Manchesterism on today’s Coffee House Shots w @hoffman_noa and @JAHeale

🎙️Give it a listen

(Includes a declaration that I am indeed from Manchester despite the non accent)
https://t.co/wTKpc05u4g

[The Spectator @spectator]

'Is it all just a little too convenient for the anti-Farage forces?'

Nigel Farage has resigned as MP for Clacton and will fight a by-election in an attempt to turn questions over his finances into a referendum on ‘the people vs the establishment’.

Last year, Dominic Cummings told Michael and Maddie that he predicted there would at some point be a concerted attempt to destabilise Farage on a personal basis.

@michaelgove @madz_grant

[James Heale @JAHeale]

Never writing a book again

[Ameer Kotecha @Ameer_Kotecha]

Following the @spectator’s extraordinary scoop about the Treasury banning numeracy tests for DEI reasons I joined @johngconnolly and @oscaredmondson_ on Coffee House Shots to explain that in the civil service this sort of thing is not the exception, it is the rule.

(Warning: we all had sore heads after the Speccie summer party so only managed 12 minutes..)

https://t.co/cZhDPMxVrC

[Megan McElroy @meganmcelr0y]

Some set changes in order on Coffee House @ShippersUnbound @hoffman_noa

[Oscar Edmondson @oscaredmondson_]

What a scoop for Politico – we will miss you Meg! 🥂

[Megan McElroy @meganmcelr0y]

Briefly interrupting resignation watch with my own announcement: thrilled to be joining the POLITICO London Playbook team as their reporter at the end of this month. 

I will miss my Spectator colleagues enormously, but excited for this new chapter.

[The Spectator @spectator]

LIVE: Andy Burnham has won big in Makerfield. Is this a turning point for British politics? Tim Shipman is joined by a panel of experts to unpack the results. https://t.co/Hy0BZvDElm

[Tim Shipman @ShippersUnbound]

EVERYTHING you need to know about MAKERFIELD and what happens next. LIVE 11.30 with me, Luke Tryl, James Lyons and Michael Simmons

[Tim Shipman @ShippersUnbound]

SPECTATOR Coffee House is GOING LIVE! at 11.30am on Friday to discuss the fallout from the Makerfield by-election. Join me on our YouTube channel https://t.co/xi60IYmHOP with a range of special guests to chew over the result, the reaction and what happens next...

[James Heale @JAHeale]

Half a million subscribers - well done to @NatashaFeroze @meganmcelr0y @oscaredmondson_ @ReleaseGibbons

[The Spectator @spectator]

'I'd have to go for I'm Too Sexy For My Shirt'

Nigel Farage has been ‘banned’ from appearing on Desert Island Discs because it would make staff feel ‘unsafe’, according to a new biography written by Lord Ashcroft.

Instead, the Reform leader exclusively told The Spectator which records he would choose if he were cast away.

@Nigel_Farage | @JAHeale | @reformparty_uk

[The Spectator @spectator]

What should gents wear in the heat? The phrase ‘stiff upper lip’ was invented for this sartorial dilemma, according to Spectator columnist Philip Womack.

Megan McElroy asked some of Westminster's finest, most fashionable men for their summer style tips. With thanks to Michael Gove, James Heale, Gawain Towler, William Atkinson and Christopher Hope.

Read more | https://t.co/agjflbsRrA

@michaelgove | @JAHeale | @GHWTowler | @christopherhope | @meganmcelroyyy | @WomackPhilip

[Lee Cain @MrLeeCain]

Great to be on @SpectatorCH with the wonderful @ShippersUnbound & @hoffman_noa to discuss the fortunes of the Conservatives. Noa’s piece in the @Spectator is a must-read - very revealing on where Kemi’s team think the Tories stand. Listen below 👇

https://t.co/OJQUfNFnZ9

[The Spectator @spectator]

On today's Coffee House Shots podcast: Andy Burnham has officially launched his campaign today to be MP for Makerfield (read: Prime Minister). But what does he actually stand for?

We've had briefings that, despite being the candidate of the soft left, he will stick to Rachel Reeves's fiscal rules and keep Shabana Mahmood's immigration reforms. He's flirted with nationalisation of utilities, but which exactly? What's the big pitch?

Burnham's launch comes the day after some good news for the government, after net migration hit its lowest level since the pandemic.

The number of people moving to Britain dropped to 171,000 in the 12 months to December, nearly half the figure recorded the year before. So why isn't the government shouting about it?

Listen | https://t.co/OfmNqJTBFM | @Simmons__ | @hoffman_noa | @oscaredmondson_

[The Spectator @spectator]

On today's Coffee House Shots podcast: The by-election in Makerfield is shaping up to be one of the most consequential contests in recent political history.

On paper, the seat should be fertile ground for Reform: heavily Leave-voting, older than average and exactly the sort of ‘left behind’ constituency Nigel Farage hopes to win. But there is one complicating factor: Andy Burnham.

The Mayor of Greater Manchester is hoping that his personal popularity can defy the political gravity of the seat and carry him back to Westminster – where, if he wins, Labour MPs may well carry him straight towards No. 10.

But can Burnham survive Reform’s attacks on immigration, Brexit and his record? And could Wes Streeting’s intervention on rejoining the EU prove fatal in a seat like Makerfield?

Tim Shipman is joined by Luke Tryl, executive director of More in Common, to discuss why this by-election could decide not just Labour’s next leader, but the future shape of British politics.

Listen | https://t.co/d4QkZm8Zt3 | @ShippersUnbound | @LukeTryl

[The Spectator @spectator]

On today's Coffee House Shots podcast: After days of deliberation, Wes Streeting has finally quit Keir Starmer’s government.

At the stroke of 1 p.m., the Ilford MP resigned as Health Secretary in a two-page letter that laid out his differences with the Prime Minister.

He details, at length, the results the pair have achieved in government and says they offer ‘good reasons for me to remain in post’. But: ‘As you know from our conversation earlier this week, having lost confidence in your leadership, I have concluded that it would be dishonourable and unprincipled to do so.’.

So there we go – the starting gun has been fired on the Labour leadership race… or has it?

@JAHeale | @ShippersUnbound | @hoffman_noa

Listen | https://t.co/9By1I0VfjS

[james lyons @James___Lyons]

Re-united with @ShippersUnbound for the @spectator podcast